noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
kindness/generosity etc personified
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Bertha was kindness personified.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
great
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I should have confessed everything, as I do now, and appealed to your great generosity of spirit.
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These women, often with family responsibilities of their own, do a heavy and demanding job with great generosity of spirit.
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Unlike so many brilliant teachers I thought that Basil was completely altruistic - this was born out of his great generosity .
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In a place full of precious antiques, this shows great generosity by the management.
public
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The charity has to rely on public generosity and numerous fundraising ventures to fund the scheme locally.
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But this does not imply public generosity either.
■ VERB
show
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For his part, Perry is pressing the Agriculture Department in Washington to show more generosity in federal crop-insurance programs.
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The bookmakers, showing unusual generosity , gave them a 44-point advantage on the handicap betting list.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
presume on/upon sb's friendship/generosity etc
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I will not presume upon your friendship any further.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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The generosity of Mr. and Mrs. Kaplan made the museum project possible.
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The Prince was famous for his generosity .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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But pervasive as this behavior may be, we do have moments of generosity and altruism.
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Government should not try to legislate goodness or generosity .
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He was a man of exceptional generosity , in fact I can truthfully say over-generous.
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I liked him because of that, and because of his generosity .
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This may be one reason for the relative generosity of earlier community help.
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Too polite to refuse their generosity , he went through the ceremony.
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We have steadily improved the coverage and generosity of the benefits system.
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Without ability, intelligence or cordiality; they know nothing of generosity or manly feeling.